Richard Dawkins says "What if you're wrong?"
June 4, 2010 at 9:48 pm
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2010 at 10:07 pm by The_Flying_Skeptic.)
I would try to find the exact speech where Dawkins responds do a little girl's question "What if you're wrong?" but I'm lazy now and just want to get this posted already. A little girl comes up to the microphone and innocently asks 'What if you're wrong?' in the after speech questions and he responds with her same question 'Well what if you're wrong?' in an angry 'i eat little girls for breakfast' manner.
Richard Dawkins is big stuff, but I think the question could have been handled better. I might have responded just as Dawkins in the moment but I think he missed an opportunity to highlight an absurd, immoral belief held by Christians: if you don't believe, you go to hell (you are tortured) for eternity.
"What if you're wrong?" says the girl
"Well... I guess a lot of good people are going to go to hell for eternity simply for not seeing enough evidence in support of a belief..."
You could go far in emphasizing how a mass murderer would go to heaven over an atheist simply for believing in Jesus Christ. Does that make sense?
Richard Dawkins is big stuff, but I think the question could have been handled better. I might have responded just as Dawkins in the moment but I think he missed an opportunity to highlight an absurd, immoral belief held by Christians: if you don't believe, you go to hell (you are tortured) for eternity.
"What if you're wrong?" says the girl
"Well... I guess a lot of good people are going to go to hell for eternity simply for not seeing enough evidence in support of a belief..."
You could go far in emphasizing how a mass murderer would go to heaven over an atheist simply for believing in Jesus Christ. Does that make sense?
